Monday, November 24, 2014

History was made last Friday when the Senate Law and Justice Committee
meeting in Olympia allowed several individuals to provide live video
remote testimony from Spokane. In what I hope was just the first of many
opportunities for Washingtonians across the state, Friday's remote
testimony test went better than I expected and put to rest any concerns
that there would be a technological obstacle to opening the doors of
Olympia via remote testimony . . . READ MORE

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

When the 2014 election is certified, only one of the nine justices on
the state Supreme Court will be from Eastern Washington, Justice Debra
Stephens. Had she not won her election, allof the state's Supreme Court justices would be from the Puget Sound region. When a vacancy recently came open on the court, several
newspapers called on Governor Inslee to bring more regional balance to
the court and select a justice from Eastern Washington. Instead he appointed Justice Mary Yu from King County . . . READ MORE

Friday, November 7, 2014

At a post election press conference earlier this week Governor Inslee was asked about his 2012 campaign promise not to ask for tax increases
and how that squares with his new calls for tax increases to address
the McCleary K-12 funding ruling. When asked what changed since 2012 the
Governor said on Wednesday . . . READ MORE

Monday, November 3, 2014

Voter turnout as of Saturday for the 2014 Election in Washington is a meager 24.4%. This means if we are to get anywhere close to the 62% forecast by the Secretary of State
a flood of ballots will be hitting the mail in the next day. This
likely means we'll be waiting several days to weeks to learn the winners
of close races . . . READ MORE